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An M60 main battle tank comes ashore during the joint US/South Korean Exercise TEAM SPIRIT'88

U.S. Marine with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion services

1st Lt. Brandon Harper, 3rd Platoon leader of Heavy

U.S. Marines with 1st Marine Division, 1st Tank Battalion,

An M-88 armored recovery vehicle is used to change the engine of an M-60 main battle tank during the multinational joint service Exercise BRIGHT STAR '85

Early Saturday morning, soldiers begin moving vehicles

U.S. Marines with Crisis Response Company, 1st Tank

Soldiers of 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd

A Marine waves from the commander's hatch of an M-1A1 Abrams main battle tank as it passes through an abandoned Iraqi position during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

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A Marine Corps M-1A1 Abrams main battle tank passes a truck in an abandoned Iraqi position during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

A Marine Corps M-1A1 Abrams main battle tank equipped with a mine-clearing plow passes a truck in an abandoned Iraqi position during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

Two Marine Corps M-1A1 Abrams main battle tanks pass through an abandoned Iraqi position during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

A Marine waves from the commander's hatch of an M-1A1 Abrams main battle tank as it passes through an abandoned Iraqi position during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

A Marine Corps M-1A1 Abrams main battle tank equipped with a mine-clearing plow crosses the desert during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

A charred AKM assault rifle and a flare pistol lie on the hull of a destroyed Iraqi BMP-1 mechanized infantry combat vehicle during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

A Marine Corps M-1A1 Abrams main battle tank moves across the desert during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

Two Marine Corps M-1A1 Abrams main battle tanks move across the desert during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

A destroyed Iraqi BMP-1 mechanized infantry combat vehicle lies in the desert during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

A Marine Corps M-1A1 Abrams main battle tank equipped with a mine-clearing plow passes through an abandoned Iraqi position during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM

Country: Kuwait (KWT)

Scene Camera Operator: STAFF SGT. Masters

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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24/02/1991
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label_outline Explore Iraqi Position, Marine Corps M, Ground Phase

A left side view of a Marine M1A1 main battle tank as it leaves the surf and moves up the beach. The tank is equipped with two air intake towers on the left side of the hull near the back of the turret and an exhaust tower on the rear of the hull, parts

American servicemen prepare to use an M-88A1 armored recovery vehicle to tow away an Iraqi T-72 main battle tank that was captured during Operation Desert Storm

US Army SPECIALIST Michael Boguth, Alpha Company, 2nd of the 14th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, New York, demonstrates one of the four firing positions of a AT-4 (Anti-tank Variation Four); the sitting position. The others are standing, kneeling and another sitting position. The class was given at Range #6 just outside of Mogadishu Airport. Straight on shot of an abandoned and dilapidated building with overturned Soviet trucks inside. The building is located at an abandoned Soviet Base north of Sword Base and is being prepared for destruction. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope

US Marine Corps (USMC) Sergeant (SGT) Mark Thompson (standing left) and Lance Corporal (LCPL) William Papple (standing right) play the role of perpetrators who have taken a hostage during a Force Protection Exercise (FPEX) being conducted on Camp Smedley D. Butler, Okinawa, Japan (JPN). This phase of the base-wide FPEX was conducted so that the Camp Foster USMC Special Reaction Team (SRT) could test and improve their base security procedures and emergency situation response time in preparation for a real event

A Marine M1A1 main battle tank moves down the open ramp of utility landing craft LCU 1658. The tank is equipped with a fording kit that is being evaluated by the Marine Corps, Naval Amphibious Base (NAB), Little Creek, Virginia (VA)

A US Army M1-A1 Abrams tank, from C Troop of the 4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment returns from the live fire training range at the Korea Training Center, Republic of Korea on Oct. 25, 1998. The center is manned throughout the year and various armored units rotate through training scenarios to meet yearly live gunnery training requirements

A left side view of an Iraqi FROG-7 Free Rocket Over Ground (FROG) artillery rocket system Transporter-Erector-Launcher (TEL) captured during Operation Desert Storm

An M1A1 Abrams tank breaches a berm in the desert during maneuvers outside the Tactical Assembly Area Liberty.EXACT DATE SHOT UNKNOWN

Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force ride in an M-939 5-ton cargo truck past an abandoned Iraqi MT-LB multipurpose tracked vehicle on the road to Kuwait City during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

Equipment (Snow Plow), National Forest Service photograph. - Bureau of Indian Affairs

The gun crew aboard the Armada Espanola (Spanish Navy) Santa Maria Class Frigate (FFG) SPS CANARIAS (F 86) fires the OTO Melara 76/62 (76 mm / 62 caliber) Compact Naval Gun Mount gun as it participates in a live-fire gun exercise during the Pacific Ocean (POC) phase of Exercise UNITS 2006, held on the Chilean coast. UNITAS 2006 is an annual exercise that involves naval forces from Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Spain, and the US training together in a number of maritime scenarios with each national force operating as a component of this multi-national force

A US Army M1 M-1 Abrams main battle tank moves towards the firing line. The tank will be test firing 105 mm ammunition developed by the Army with the assistance of Naval Ordnance Station, Louisville, Kentucky

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